Techie MV

Filesonic Shuts Down their File-Sharing Service | Uploaded.to blocks US [Megaupload Reflex]

2012-01-23T07:54:00.002+05:00

I piled up a lot of links on my Jdownloader which are on Filesonic and the premium account login that I added to Jdownloader suddenly dissapeared and when I went to settings page, it says Invalid account! so I Went to Filesonic website and Found the following notice:

According to announcement by the site, all file-sharing functionality has now been disabled, leaving current users only with access to files that they have personally uploaded.
Many hundreds of thousands (probably millions) of links all around the web have now been rendered useless, at least temporarily.
In the last few hours, before file-sharing was disabled, Filesonic has ended its rewards program, meaning that uploaders to the site no longer earn money when people download their files.

This has got to do with the Megaupload Shutting down incident and SOPA/PIPA ! Since Like Megaupload, Filesonic is based in Hong Kong. and Filesonic founder dosn't probably want to get arrested! Arrestphobia!!

Furthermore Uploaded.to has blocked access to US users:

One by one , the filesharing sites are falling! In the end it could come to a total end of filesharing sites thanks to some not-well planned acts/thoughts regarding Piracy! However even if all filesharing sites are to be gone, Piracy would not! In the end, there would have been no meaning in shutting down the filesharing sites.

All the filesonic and megaupload links on my download list rendered useless! I probably cant get those files elsewhere! So what troubles are you guys facing due to the Megauplaod Shutdown Chain Reaction?

[SOurce][filesonic][Uploaded.to]

Dhiraagu launches The Mobile Content Mania 2012

2012-01-21T20:26:00.000+05:00

Dhiraagu has today announced the launch of Mobile Content Mania (MCM) 2012 competition.
The competition is said to targeted for the youth to create and upload their own contents and win grand prizes. The competition will be open from 20th January to 17th February 2012.

MCM 2012 has three different content categories; Audio, Image and Video. A special website has been launched for participants to register and upload their contents for the competition. The content uploaded will be moderated and made available on the MCM website.

The competition is designed into 3 stages; in the first stage the top 10 contents from each category will be selected through public voting via SMS. In the second stage, judges of the competition will select the top three contents among the top 10 contents from each category and open them for a second round of public voting via SMS to select the best content in the final stage.

To register for MCM 2012, participants can visit the competition official website at http://mcm.dhiraagu.com.mv/.

The Prizes are also in to three different categories: Audio , Image and Video! Audio related sound devices for those who win on the Audio category , likewise on Video and Image category too!

So would you be participating in the event or not?

[Dhiraagu Mobile Content Mania 2012][Press Release]

Megaupload Shuts Down

2012-01-20T09:31:00.003+05:00

The US government has shut down top file hosting service Megaupload and had its founder arrested on suspicion of causing $500 million in lost revenue to content sellers.

The Megaupload sites were managed through an international network of companies, head-quartered in Hong Kong.

Although not a US company and not managed from the US, the fact that it maintained US servers and supplied millions of US visitors with illegal downloads was considered ample legal grounds for the federal government to move against it.

However, as the Megaupload arrests all took place using current laws, they have not only further inflamed Internet opinion against SOPA, PIPA and the major copyright lobbies behind them, but have also apparently demonstrated that US copyright holders are quite able to launch crippling legal attacks on internationally managed sites using only existing laws.

Megaupload’s eventual fate remains unclear – the fate of piracy-related sites in similar positions has varied greatly, from those that apparently sustained all legal assaults unscathed (such as The Pirate Bay) and others which successfully sold out to copyright holders, to those whose business models simply collapsed under a hail of litigation and criminal charges.

Read More ... on BBC.

And here I have been downloading from Megaupload a lot! Usually Animes! But I guess I can't Anymore! because there is No more Megaupload now eh! So what kind of impact are you been facing from the shutdown of megaupload?

How does SOPA Work?

2012-01-20T09:22:00.000+05:00

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